One summer during college, I worked as a promotions supervisor for a large sports-drink company. My job primarily entailed showing up at major sporting events around the city and setting up big, inflatable games for children to play on while handing out free drinks. The only hard part of the job was loading the trucks at the warehouse before the event. After several months, it became simple to guess the correct number of drinks that would be required for the size of the expected crowd. So, when we came across an event that was expected to have four times the number of people we normally could handle, we knew immediately it was going to be a tight squeeze in the back of the truck. On every other occasion, we had loaded the inflatable games, which were rather large, and the drinks in the back of the same truck. Because of the big crowd expected at this event, though, we decided to leave the games behind to make room for the extra drinks. We would make a return trip that afternoon to set up the games.
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